• A band of fibrous connective tissue that joins bone to muscle.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• A cord of collagen fibers that connect a muscle to a bone.
  Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
  Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
• Fibrous cord by which a muscle is attached.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Organ component of muscle which consists of bundles of collagen fibrils (Type I collagen) bound by loose connective tissue.
  Foundational Model of Anatomy
  University of Washington, 2017
• Tough, fibrous, cord-like tissue that connects muscle to bone or another structure, such as an eyeball. Tendons help the bone or structure to move.
  NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Fibrous bands or cords of CONNECTIVE TISSUE at the ends of SKELETAL MUSCLE FIBERS that serve to attach the MUSCLES to bones and other structures.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• Tendon, tissue that attaches a muscle to other body parts, usually bones. Tendons are the connective tissues that transmit the mechanical force of muscle contraction to the bones; the tendon is firmly connected to muscle fibres at one end and to components of the bone at its other end. Tendons are...
  Encyclopedia Britannica
  Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020